November 2008 – Page 2 – Realniches.com

The Perfect Gift; The Art of Giving With a Gift Basket

Finding the perfect gift for someone can be a painstaking task. You search high and low for just the right thing to give but you keep coming up empty handed. Then it hits you, a gift basket!

The practice of giving gifts in a basket has been around for centuries. Kings use to send a gift basket full of fruit to their guests quarters as a way of welcoming them into their home. Some famous people have said great things about the gift basket:

“Those who can make you believe that giving anything but a gift basket is acceptable, can make you commit other social atrocities.” Voltaire, Writer and Philosopher

“It is far better to give a gift basket than receive one”. Benjamin Franklin

“I have a terrible need of — dare I say the word? — Religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars, and send everyone I know a gift basket.” Vincent van Gogh
So as you can see, the gift basket has been a tried and true form of saying thank you or I love you for quite some time. The gift basket comes in various shapes, sizes, and contains a variety of things. You have a wine gift basket, a fruit gift basket, a chocolate gift basket and even gift basket that contains meat products. The best thing is that your budget doesnt have to go bankrupt to give a gift basket. Baskets range from as little as $5 and can go as high as a couple of thousand dollars. So you are bound to find a gift basket that will fit within your budget. Baskets can range from those made from wicker or bamboo to those made of wood and even paper mache. Gift baskets will remain a popular item for quite sometime. When you have no idea what to buy someone, a gift basket is always a popular item. Just focus on what the recipient likes. There are gift baskets for sports fans, movie lovers, readers, and even writers. The assortment is endless. You can also make your own gift basket to give it a more personal touch. Your recipient will be pleased to receive whatever gift basket you send them. It is so exciting to open the door and see a delivery for you or to come into your office and see a gift basket sitting on your desk. No matter what, your gift is a thought from your heart.

??Be Careful About Using Free Golf Swing Tips Indiscriminately

Wherever you look today, you will come across some new golf swing tips or the other because TV, internet as well as golf magazines all have something or the other to show or tell you and therefore it is quite easy to find free golf swing tips. Even your fellow golfers and friends can provide you with useful free golf swing tips and of course, the Internet is choc-a-bloc full with free golf swing tips as well.

Look Online

However, most golfers will prefer to look for free golf swing tips over the Internet because the advent of the Information Age has made obtaining information a lot simpler and more convenient than at any time before. However, before jumping in and also trying your luck with obtaining free golf swing tips over the Internet, it may be better to first of all pause and ask you whether you really will get useful information from available free golf swing tips.

In fact, if you research your facts first, you may actually conclude that using free golf swing tips may not be all that good an idea and they should be left alone since these tips are sure to have a lot of anomalies in them that can adversely affect your golf swing instead of improving it.

Even the experts and many professional golfers advice against using free golf swing tips, and even if you do decide to go ahead and try these tips, it is still necessary to first of all evaluate what the tips are asking off you because of course they could very well be telling you to do the wrong thing.

If you get used to following wrong free golf swing tips you would find that you will have to spend a lot of time unlearning what you have learnt and if you are unfortunate you may even end up becoming injured as a result of following the wrong free golf swing tips. Thus, you need to steer clear of tips that for example suggest that you need to twist your wrists over in order to increase the speed of your club head prior to making contact with the ball as such tips can cause you to even injure your wrists quite severely.

So, it is a matter of chance and it may be better if you played it safe and bought golf swing instructional videos or even hired a pro to instruct you because at least you would be on the right track, which is what you want in any case. In any, case mastering the golf swing is a challenge that you will have to face and also master and so, you could try taking the help of a good golf swing tutorial as that is another effective way of improving your swing.

The bottom line is that almost every golfer will have a certain viewpoint about what constitutes a good golf swing and so, there are sure to be many free golf swing tips hitting you. To be on the safe side, it may be wiser to spend a little money and learn the proper technique instead of chancing your arm (quite literally) and following the wrong advice.